We get a visit from a "grasshop"

It snuck into our backyard, and started gnawing on the old sunflower that we forgot to clean up. At first I was disappointment that I had forgotten to save the seeds for eating, then I realized that in my whole life I never really ate sunflower seeds for snacks, and for me the true value in the sunflower seeds is luring birds, squirrels, and "grasshops" to the backyard so that Theo and Ruby can see them.


Theo is learning what its real name is, but usually we have to remind him. There is a part of me that never wants him to get it exactly right.